It started with suffering.

In 2013, not unlike many other sixteen-year-olds, I was no stranger to mental health challenges - namely anxiety and obsessive-compulsive issues.

I was raised Presbyterian. From a young age, I gave Bible readings in church and helped (in the loosest sense of the word, probably) my grandmother teach elementary Sunday School. Now in the face of clinical mental anguish, I went into nature, to a special familial place, and pled with God to help me through this experience - somehow.

Not long after, I had (or was gifted) the courage to share with my parents what I was experiencing, and they set me up with a wonderful therapist who provided invaluable recovery support. And on July 4th of that year, my mother - who had been taking psychic development classes - lent me a small book about the angelic realm, hoping that perhaps something in it would prove useful or healing for me. Little did she know how much it would ignite!

At age 17, I completed the first training of my newfound path - an angel card reader course with bestselling author Radleigh Valentine. I was certified, and with much further study in the programs of naturopath Robert Reeves, Charles Virtue, and other notable figures, I practiced bringing the guidance and healing of the angelic and broader spirit realms to myself and others. At 19, I was invited to begin facilitating message circles (gallery-style psychic reading ceremonies) in my home region of upstate New York, and I began teaching public workshops.

It was at this time that I also discovered the art of shamanism, and began my formal study of cross-cultural shamanic healing. After a series of advanced trainings in extraction healing, soul retrieval, deathwalking, and more, I was accepted into Sandra Ingerman, MA's 9th Two-Year Teacher Training in Shamanic Journeying, Healing, and Medicine for the Earth, which I graduated in 2020.

Now, combining a decade of experience working with others, I conduct shamanic spirit readings and healing services, as well as shamanic healing circles and shamanic practitioner training programs.

I have had the privilege of working with a diverse array of challenges with a just-as-diverse array of global clientele. I aim to create an inclusive space in all of my work, including for racial and ethnic minorities and fellow LGBTQ+ people. I have presented on television, radio, and webinar series, and have taught in the Midwest and on both coasts of the United States for library and artistic centers, spiritual stores and healing spaces, private individuals and groups, the Institute for Spiritual Development Washington D.C., and the Free Thinker Institute.

I have had the additional honor of assisting celebrated teachers in their own programs. I served as faculty assistant to Radleigh Valentine during his Creating a Magical Life with the Angels workshop at Kripalu in 2019 (I was also once his over-generously-termed “Social Media Magician”), and later in Sandra Ingerman’s nine-week course, The Dark Night of the Soul as a Portal to the Shaman's Light, as well as her Taking Medicine for the Earth Work to Higher Frequencies for the Benefit of our Health and the Planet in 2023 and the first week of her final Two-Year Teacher Training in April 2025 - a role during which I also trained late-add studentship in how to teach an advanced shamanic extraction healing training. The Shift Network, through which the Dark Night of the Soul course was held, then described me as the “youngest person to train with Sandra on how to teach shamanism.”

In my work, I emphasize the importance of skilled science, scholarly anthropology and ethnography, and shamanism as complementary healthcare. I have maintained certification in Adult Mental Health First Aid through the National Council for Mental Wellbeing since 2018, and graduated cum laude with a BA in psychology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh, where I also served as a research assistant examining the impacts of psychedelics on psychotherapy, and a teacher's assistant administering to two psychology lab courses (which, humorously enough, included a classic rudimentary exercise on “testing” psychic ability).

While I still walk a perhaps lifelong path of recovery with an obsessive-compulsive disorder, my connection with the spiritual realms helps not only to make use of my suffering, opening the door to greater states of compassion and human understanding - it also meaningfully supports my own balance and health, as I have seen it support my clients’. I now call the beautiful river-side city of Vancouver, Washington (in the Portland, Oregon metro area) home with my partner Alexi, who is on track to receive his second master’s degree as the John W. Ryan Fellow at the Indiana University O’Niell School of Public and Environmental Affairs and is involved in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. In my spare time, I enjoy adding new Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards to my collection, sipping homemade chocolate berry smoothies to the next new show Alexi and I have discovered, hoping desperately that the eastern marmot somehow migrates permanently to the West Coast (I adore them), and cracking cringe-inducing jokes to my friends that make them immensely relieved that my dream is not to be a successful (or even passable) comedian.

TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) Version:

Garrett Jackson is a psychic medium and teacher of the empowering art of shamanism.

He completed his first parapsychological psychic reading course at the young age of 17, and began leading public gallery-style readings and workshops at age 19. He has studied in a range of divinatory, angelic and shamanic healing, and teaching trainings with a number of celebrated instructors, including Radleigh Valentine, Charles Virtue, Dory Cote, and Sandra Ingerman.

Now, drawing upon a decade of experience, Garrett conducts for an international clientele shamanic spirit readings and healing services, as well as shamanic healing circles and shamanic practitioner training programs.

In the inclusive and humor-enriched spaces that he aims to create, Garrett has taught across the United States, as well as for the Institute for Spiritual Development Washington D.C., the Free Thinker Institute, and others, along with having presented on television, radio, and webinar series. He has served as assistant to Valentine and Ingerman in their own programs, including a portion of Ingerman’s final Two-Year Teacher Training, and has provided training in how to teach advanced shamanic work.

Emphasizing the need for skilled science and the place of shamanism in complementary healthcare, Garrett maintains certification in Adult Mental Health First Aid through the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, and graduated cum laude with a BA in psychology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh.

Now a Pacific Northwest resident, Garrett can be found in his spare time playing and collecting cards in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game and telling horrendous and cringe-inducing jokes to his friends that make them immensely relieved that his dream is not to become a successful (or even passable, really) comedian.